D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | Nb I keep separate /home and /boot partitions, > | which I don't format when upgrading. > | (I choose the Custom Upgrade choice, > | not the disastrously bad default which re-partitions your machine.) > > I do something quite similar. > > I don't have a separate /boot partition: I keep /boot as part of the > per-version / partition. > > I would not have thought that a single shared /boot would work. > Different systems might want to have conflicting files (eg. > /boot/grub/grub.conf). I've always had a single /boot partition and it seems to work fine, with the same grub.conf for different systems. It is true that Fedora installation moves the old grub.conf to grub.conf.rpmsave , but I just append this to the grub.conf the installation creates (removing the duplication at the beginning). > I have gotten in trouble in a couple of ways: > > - dot-files for different releases don't always "get along". I agree that this has caused minor problems in the past, but as it happens there were no problems of this kind for me in the last upgrade from F-13 to F-14. In any case, it would take far longer for me to copy over all the dot files than it would to correct the one or two problems that might arise. > - once (a long time ago) a new Fedora relabeled /home (in the SELinux > sense, I think) and made it impossible for the old Fedora to access. I'm an SELinux coward - I start off in enforcing mode, but the first time I get an SELinux problem I don't immediately understand I switch to permissive mode. > Another issue: how to do booting. What lives in the Master Boot > Record (the first track on the drive)? What lives in each partition's > Boot Record? Again, I don't understand the problem. Fedora installation uses the MBR, and this seems to me to work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
